Written task

This travail will be related to initiate 1 Language in ethnical context specified in the topic of Language and Identity and how both ( phraseology and identity) are related to all(prenominal) other. In order to find the relation, the movie The Freedom Writers was studied. This film portrays the achievement of dreams, and how mass living in the same place apprise express their vocabulary in contrasting ways depending on their social and cultural hi level. The project was centered on how delivery is shaped by a cultural context, represented with a diary entry written from a graphic symbol from the movie Ben.He talks intimately his and his menagemates experiences with girlfriend Erin as a instructor and how her life changed together with their own, and how social differences interfere in their social relationship. This diary is separated into several(predicate) sections according to what he lives e rightfully day, talking in present tense. Along the diary there are quot es from the teacher and the students, employ to emphasize the main theme of this task language and culture. Through those quotes the teacher showed code switching, trying to get to know her students by their own language.Ben tells his story his personal point of view and any(prenominal)times he compares the teachers story to his own. nowadays this is a big problem for some people who go to contrastive countries and salve dont adapt. Thats why this was a good exercise for better disposition of the problem (cultural/social) and practice better writing. A diary entry was chosen for this task because it is interesting how the point of view from a certain consultation give notice change the way a general audience can think about a certain topic.The characteristics of the airy entries were to add different dates to each paragraph and write in first person. *Written task based on the movie The Freedom Writers- directed by Richard Laggardness- year 2007 Rationale words 300 How my story begins to change Monday 1 2 This is my first diary entry, so I will talk a midget about myself. I lived all my life in Los Angles, California. unitary day I had to move to Long Beach, California for family reasons. In Los Angles my teachers were in truth serious, formal and not so appealing with students.For some reason every whizzness ruling we were educated, exclusively the real taxation is that teachers mistreated us. Once I locomote to Long beach everyone was different from me, not in the educational part, but in the physical and language aspect I was white and everyone else black, I talk in a certain tone and they talk in a different one. They discriminated me for those differences and I wasnt able to defend myself, so preferably I stayed quiet and ignorant. Suddenly my story began to change when shed Erin arrived to school.I everlastingly proverbing machine something good about her she wasnt like the other teachers she seems educated, DOD smell and she was wh ite. I didnt feel alone anymore around my classmates soulfulness was undecomposed like me in the physical aspect. However, at the beginning I saw a strange strength from her towards the class she didnt make us very well. I didnt know why, she did not look racist, but with time I was able to realize she didnt understand the way my classmates talked. I say my classmates because I do not feel I belong to them, not now.Tuesday nineteenth Today, Miss Erin had chalk on her skirt and one of the boys of the class told her do you want give me fries with that shake. Everybody laughed very hard, she laughed a little so nobody notice she didnt understand the Joke, I knew she didnt understand what he meant by that phrase, because that used to happen to me too, in fact I still dont get them but I am used to those strange phrases. I realized that the misunderstanding was mutual, she didnt understand them and they didnt understand her since she used very overlord words like auxiliary, abrogate , acrimony etc.Nevertheless, she tried so hard to understand the class engage and be part of them but her culture was too different from theirs, however I was able to realize something she didnt want to learn the language Just to be updated, but because she cared about us and our education. Miss Campbell told Miss Erin we had to learn real retard but how could she teach us discipline if she couldnt communicate verbally with us? Wednesday 20th Today at class, Miss Erin started to imitate the way they talked, she told us My braggyness when she tried to be decorous with us, as a consequence everyone started laughing because it was mispronounced.Also she got mad sometimes with one of my classmates, so she had to punish him verbally in a way that he could understand her, by saying This is a buck you to me and everyone in your class. Either for worse or better she tried to communicate. I ideal she was very brave to learn their language and face them in bad moments, it was certainly so mething that I would never do, I am too fearful. Friday twenty-second On this day Miss Erin told us she realized that the bad orthoepy and spelling mistakes came from their bad attitude, since they didnt care about their own education.She notices that they express that attitude through drawings (that I never was able to understand) it was like their language was denotative in a simple drawing. She saw one of the drawings my classmates did it was a gay mocking one black boy of the class. That was the moment when Miss Erin explained to us the story of the holocaust nobody in my class knew what it was, neither did l. She told us that this event of the past was related to discrimination Just like the fictitious character they were doing to this boy. She explained how important education was for us, the opportunity it eave us to go to school, college, work etc.She sounded really sad and mad at the same time, because we were losing a chance that legion(predicate) people throw away. I felt happy in a certain way because finally there was a teacher who cared about us in a deeper way. Right after that, she gave us some diaries where we could write, not only to write our feelings but also to improve our grammar. At the beginning, of course, nobody wanted to write because they werent used to express their feelings and writing their chance(a) life on a piece of paper. Personally, I was scared for someone to e my life, get to know my fears and use that evidence to mock me.Nevertheless, one girl in my class took the first diary, which leads to the rest of the class to selection one too. Monday 24th Miss Erin, arrived to school with a big surprisal everyone started to write in their diaries, it was awesome how they started to care about their grammar and their attitude was at once changed, they were happier, their grades began to rise it seems like writing took away all their problems. I can talk by myself to Im not afraid anymore of my classmates and our cultural diff erences, in fact, now I have friends.However, Miss Erin still doesnt get the language one day one boy told her No that dont fly ma. And she told him Im not your mom. Of course everyone laughed, including me, but not mocking, instead, they told her that was a star sign of respect. Now that two years have passed from the first time we saw Miss Erin, she has learned our language and we all make Jokes between each other. All this effort came from her, thats why I have to thank her for doctrine us to be better persons with the rest of the people and most important, with ourselves. labor words 1. 000